budwe al-chalouhi

1. What influences your values about issues relating to your life?
Some things that influence my values about issues relationg to life would be the people around me, like friends, family or loved ones. I also get influenced by the work of Jesus and how he set an example when he was here on Earth.

2. Do you ever compare images/values presented to the media of those in the bible? if so why? if not why not?
Yes, sometimes i do if it related to a parable that i know in the bible i would reflect back and think about who would be correct or who is setting a better example. Of course the bible is always right but its interesting to see how far off or how close some people can get.

3. Has this project challenged you to examine your values? why/why not?
Yes, this project has surprised me alot and i have definatly learnt to look deeper into something before i judge that scene. One example would be when we did the ‘Think fair share’ activity, we were shown a boy sitting on a couch playing a psp and every one including me asumed that the boy was rich, stubborn, lazy, etc, but the message behind turned out to be comkpletely different and it is amaizing to see how much lies a picture can tell if there is nothing to support it.

1. How do you feel the media portrays social justice issues?
I feel that the media portray social justice issues by presenting them generalized and not in much depth to what is actually hapening and focusing in on the real message of the story.

2. Has it been difficult to find articles on social justice issues why/why not?
Yes it has been hard to find articles on social justice issues because the media like to pick on the small things and focus on the main people or person in the article to show the readers what they have done and for what reasons they did it.

3. Do you think that the media operates from a moral framework? Give evidence by using your research.
The media work from a moral framework because if the reader, listeners or watchers at home hear about (which is usually a bad cause) what the person did, they compare it to what normal people would do and then are amazed at how someone could commit something, whatever the cause may be. So the media definatley operate from a moral framework. 

The ‘think fair share’ activity we did today can really help to open your eyes in how we portay a peice of artwork or what it shows you. Its scary to see how much the media can change a picture around, (but whilst still keeping it the same) to change your views on what is actually happening.

The media can make an image seem totally different to us, so that they can manipulate our minds and force us to think what they want us to think, not what we should think of and come up of our own conclusions for.

1. Describe what is a Critique.
A critique is identifying the main points of a story that you can generalize and mostly describe rather than analyse.

2. Outline the FOUR stages in a critique.
The four stages in a critique are as follows:-
. An introduction (wich usually grabs the readers attention).
. A sumary of the article.
. Your analysis or personal comments on the story.
. An evaluation or conclusion of the article written.

3. Can a critique be positive? Discuss.
Yes, a critique can be positive because it allows you to generalize the story without having to change the story line and making up a completly different and non-relevant article. This can be used against newspaper readers (if you are a journalist or news reporter).

4. Critique the accuracy of the following articles:
Arcticle 1: The article that i just watched can no way be true because there is no evidence shown, they are just talkin from what they think they want to beleive and to what they fear.

Article 2: Donkey’s in basketball is not a real sport and this news article is wrong, even though they have shown images and moving clips the audience can tell straight away that it is not factual.